Yep...I recognize that view too. It's nice your little Buddha is watching over you. I hope your back is better! Mine is unreliable at best but if I do the right things it holds up better (right things does not include sitting at computer). Would you mind saying how you do the shading in your drawings? I tried to figure it out, but it looks like you're drawing with pen but the shading looks more like washes. I love your drawings!
Thanks Laura. I didn't think about it until you wrote it - sort of a glazed-over look we get.
Jana, re: the shading - it's really simple. I use a soft 6b pencil, usually a 2mm clutch pencil, and one of those big soft pastel blending tools to push the graphite around. I learned the technique from a friend and brilliant storyboard artist who worked with me at the studio, and also from this book. The originals are a bit lighter than what you see here, so I play with the levels a little bit in Photoshop, which also seems to pick up the yellows in the moleskine paper. The reason it might look like pen is a long, boring story, but basically amounts to me erasing too much as a kid and subsequently forcing myself to sketch only in ink from 1979 to 2002. So I think I handle a pencil more like a pen out of habit. Sorry for the long-winded response.
Thanks for the explanation. Really interesting and helpful! I like the practice of using a pen and not erasing but I don't like the shading I can do with a pen--prefer a more wash-like look for shading, which you get with your graphite.
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There's that universal sitting-in-front-of-monitor expression and you caught it so well.
Yep...I recognize that view too. It's nice your little Buddha is watching over you. I hope your back is better! Mine is unreliable at best but if I do the right things it holds up better (right things does not include sitting at computer). Would you mind saying how you do the shading in your drawings? I tried to figure it out, but it looks like you're drawing with pen but the shading looks more like washes. I love your drawings!
Thanks Laura. I didn't think about it until you wrote it - sort of a glazed-over look we get.
Jana, re: the shading - it's really simple. I use a soft 6b pencil, usually a 2mm clutch pencil, and one of those big soft pastel blending tools to push the graphite around. I learned the technique from a friend and brilliant storyboard artist who worked with me at the studio, and also from this book. The originals are a bit lighter than what you see here, so I play with the levels a little bit in Photoshop, which also seems to pick up the yellows in the moleskine paper. The reason it might look like pen is a long, boring story, but basically amounts to me erasing too much as a kid and subsequently forcing myself to sketch only in ink from 1979 to 2002. So I think I handle a pencil more like a pen out of habit. Sorry for the long-winded response.
Thanks for the explanation. Really interesting and helpful! I like the practice of using a pen and not erasing but I don't like the shading I can do with a pen--prefer a more wash-like look for shading, which you get with your graphite.
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